Celebrate
a day of love
with a twist
Just as life is a journey, so is love. The bonus of the journey of love is that it’s a journey shared by two.
It’s a journey that is happy, exciting, full of surprises and full of special moments, one of which may be a
wedding. For me, this is extra special as I get to be involved in the wedding ceremony as the Wedding Celebrant.
Heather Sorensen shares her experiences that have made a special day extra special.
Creating a ceremony with a lasting memory is rather special. These are some of my favourite ceremonies I have been
privileged to be a part of.
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A sand ceremony is a great way to
create a lasting memory. The sand can
be natural, such as the wedding on
Arapawa Island when the bride shared
the golden sand from the beach where
she grew up, with the groom’s black
sand from the West Coast – two distinct
layers and then a combined one.
Couples can also choose specific colours
to combine for various reasons. One
bride chose to carry a beautifully crafted
glass bottle instead of flowers and then
she, the groom and his two children
layered their sand with a wee gap at the
top of the bottle that was completed
with sand from their honeymoon.
• How about a surprise ceremony? There
was the engagement party that turned
into a wedding. The birthday party that
became a wedding. The friends and
family car rally ended with a wedding
at the final stop!!
• What better way to make a toast than
with your own wine and that is what
couples who choose a wine ceremony
get to do. The bride pours her white
wine into a carafe and the groom pours
his red wine. The result: a unique Rosé
that they toast each other with.
• It’s an opportunity to have some fun
too. On one ocassion, the bride walked
in first and then the groom and his best
man danced in. The keen All Black and
Wallaby fans who arrived together in
their rugby gears (and then went away
and changed during a reading).
The best man who presented burger
rings, then chatter rings before the real
rings, and so the list goes on.
• There was the time I learnt some
Portuguese so that I could speak to the
bride’s father when he escorted her into
the ceremony.
So many memories of so many happy occasions that are part of some amazing love journeys. It’s all about making the
special day, special to the couple embarking on their journey of love.
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